Dress shirts, especially often-worn favorites, can show signs of aging after twenty or thirty wearings. Check your cuffs and collars for signs of wear. If you see darkness at the edges, you’re seeing the interfacing through worn fabric. Don’t forget the elbows. Thinning fabric that’s been stressed by elbow bending can tear or burst, never at…

Why left handed buttons for women? In Victorian times, right handed maids did most of the buttoning for fashionable women. Left-handed buttons indicated wealth (you had enough to pay a maid to do the tedious work). As with everything, there’s an answer on the Internet. By the time sewing machines and patterns became popular in…

You’ll lose an hour to Daylight Savings but you can make up for it with our time-saving cleaning and laundry services. Whether we pick up and deliver or serve you from our counter, let us take care of your all your household linens and garment cleaning and ironing.

Broken buttons are the most common damage to shirts, sweaters and blazers – but damaged specialty buttons can be difficult to match unless you saved the extra buttons stitched into new clothes. Without matching replacements, you may have to to replace all if one or two begin to crack. If it is a favorite fashion…

Compared to machine washing, dry cleaning does less damage to your clothes in the long-run. Dry-cleaning your clothes will also help them remain soft, fresh, and will ensure that their colors stay intact. Also note that the damage factor also varies from one dry cleaner to the next, depending on the quality of its machines,…

Get the most out of your ski wear. Check for salt, grit or food spills après ski. Close zippers and release tension on drawstrings or elastics, dry thoroughly before storing. Specifically follow care instruction tags: high tech fabrics need special attention, sometimes more sophisticated than your home washing machine. We’re your garment cleaning and care…

Celebrate your affection with the one you love Monday, the day we honor matters of the heart. And if you end up with a lipstick stain, chocolate smear, champagne spill or other unexpected souvenir, bring it to our professional stain removal experts.  

When powder makeup gets on dark clothing (always when you’re in a hurry) ignore the instinct to brush it away. Rubbing spreads the mess and pushes the powder into the fabric. Blow it off, using canned air, hair dryer or your breath. Makeup remover on a cotton ball should pick up what’s left. We can…

When a forgotten tissue in the pocket hits the washing machine, it quickly decomposes into tiny shreds of paper that get everywhere. Pick off the bigger pieces before letting the dryer’s lint trap do its job. Remove while damp and shake out remaining scraps, use a clothes brush or lint roller to finish.

Fabric mask care. Keeping washable masks clean and fresh is made a lot easier with a mesh laundry bag. Like delicate lingerie, a mask is small, is prone to tangles and can get beat up by larger and heavier laundry items. We use mesh laundry bags every day to keep delicates in shape and safe through the…